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Most Essential Media Training Links(mrmediatraining.com)
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With great power comes great responsibility. Once you are the CTO of the #1 web company you have to expect that you're going to be held to different standards than J. Random Blogger. The fact that you consider it 'fairly insignificant' is p
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Ok, just for mr. Brin then: "Services should be composable or sooner or later we'll get a competitor that gets this who will kill us." I hope that accurately summarizes the essential bits, if you disagree or can shorten it further feel free
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Which bits would you leave out?
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by 0x12 15y ago
Same here. Just set the background image to all white, touch any button and it will light up. Not too bright but usable in most cases. The extended battery life is what clinched it for me. The funniest thing is that for years I would be way
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> broadcasting the mundane minutiae of everyday existence to all your "friends". Broadcasting it is one thing, recording it all is quite another.
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A golden oldie from Patrick: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b...
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You can be pseudonymous to google but known to your friends, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. After all, google is just the transportation medium why should it have any knowledge on whose data it transports, as long as it re
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Super, great to see it's on your radar. Thank you very much for all your hard work.
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Why would it have to be life changing in order to be useful? The trade-off could well be watching soaps vs re-doing your high school or university level math.
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I think my point is that education should be as accessible as possible and that any barrier is too much. There will always be those that are left out inadvertently or because their numbers are not significant enough to be taken into account
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In some places breach of fiduciary duty is a criminal offense. So you may very well end up in jail. I'm not sure there is adequate compensation for a risk like that. Being the 8th largest shareholder of MSFT might do the trick for some indi
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- facebook and/or google may not be around forever - my account with facebook and/or google could get disabled by them on a whim, severing my link with the Khan academy - there is no upside to me to log in with a facebook
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I love the Khan academy, it is one of the best things that came out of the internet to date. But I really wished that they would allow me to sign up with them and them alone without having to use either google or facebook to log in, that's
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iirc it was the XOR patent, here is one part of that story: http://xcssa.org/pipermail/xcssa/2005-February/002587.html I'm not sure if that was all there was to it and possibly there is room in there for a 'microsoft mole' somehow, but a
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A mole is someone that is there undercover. Nokia's CEO is there in plain sight and has very strong connections to Microsoft, was brought in by the board to guide Nokia away from their homebrew stuff and onto Windows. How could he possibly
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Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, speaks at Web 2.0 Summit in SF(youtube.com)
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Sure, I get that. But that's why the bias can never be a (discrete) input, it is an emergent property of some unknown piece of matter, not something you set with a slider in steps of 1%. As the coin gets more biased you'll need to flip more
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Editing a farewell message would be the most un-classy thing one could do. Authenticity is worth far more than any spell checked version in a case like this and I'm really happy that they didn't fall for that trap. Think about it, if there
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If I set the slider to 50% then it still wants me to flip 3 times. At 50% one flip would do. There should be at least an exception for that situation, I can't imagine I'm being alone in testing the edge cases first.
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And at a minimum it should not longer be trivially accessible to the company via their 'normal' procedures.
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Mail pg, he can reset it for you. The email address is not a secret, you can find it easily enough.
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Already there is a significant pay-off in researching the laws of the place where you intend to incorporate.
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Make sure you mean it though. Plenty of people that have read that book come across as insincere, fake and borderline manipulative.
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But he did post here and he asked for input. So even if none of us would likely give the man/woman a chance based on their admitted attitude (and that's not what is being asked) the input is what matters. And input like yours is exactly wha
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Did you know Steve Jobs personally?
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Whoever wrote this doesn't like Apple much. After all it paints a picture that Apple could not run itself without Steve even for a single day right up to the day he died.
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That is a very dangerous attitude. The moment you think you are too big to fail you are more at risk than at any stage before then. Dropbox could still fail overnight. It would have to be a bad set of circumstances but they're definitely no
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Good stuff. Dealing with your co-founders indeed expands into a long list all by itself, to make it explicit is better. Freedom is indeed the #1 reason I had when I decided to be a 'single founder' (in fact, it wasn't a conscious decision a
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Second all that, and adding: For everybody there is a spot where they will feel right at home and their personality 'issues' will suddenly turn into assets. It took me well over two decades to find my niche, I hope that you won't have to sp

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